Being from Scotland, I find alot of friends seem to be quite positive about Canada and Australia but less so about the US (probably because they are a bunch of racists :embarassed
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I think since i am American with most of my ancestry tracing back to very early settlers who came in 1630's and before the 1750's. Many of them Being Scottish or Scotch Irish Also American folk culture and the american identity was mainly created by Scotch Irish who where Scottish people living in Ulster Ireland. Hillbilles are Scottish. American gosple music(only a little pit in black gospel music) was heavily influnced by Scottish church music a type that was orignnally sang in gealic. Southern whites are either mainly Scottish or have a very high amount of Scottish ancestry.
In the American revolutionary war fighting for freedom from British scotch irish(who orignalley came from Scottish and had mainly Insular Celtic ancestry)
where the main ethnic group not English. A British Hessian said this about the American revolution
"Call this war by whatever name you may, only call it not an American rebellion; it is nothing more or less than a Scotch Irish Presbyterian rebellion". A British major general testified to the House of Commons that "half the rebel Continental Army were from Ireland" meaning their first generation Scotch irish and of Scottihs ancestry.
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The first American president that was not born rich and was known as the president of the people was Andrew Jackson He was a first generation Scotch Irish and also a redhead he was president from 1829-1837. In the war of 1812 he lead an army of Scotch Irish sharp shooting mountain men aka they where from the people group later known as hillbillies down into New Orleans. He deafted edward PAkenkam one of the greatest British Genrals who was also killed in the battle.
Here is a song made in the 1950's by Scotch Irish it is traditional American music a mixture of west African and Scotch Irish about the battle of new orleans. U would probably think this guys a dumb american raciest u dont realize ur brother by blood.
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The Confederates who fought for slavery of Blacks in the american civil war from 1861-1865 where of mainly Scottish ancestry. That is why the Confederate flag had st Andrew's croos they did it because of their Scottish ancestry. The confederate also had a traditional Scottish battle crys.
In world war two Genral patton the american leader and allied leader aginst the nazis was Scotch irish his direct ancestor was a genral for scotch Irish mountain men in the revloutionary war. Genral MacArthur Americas leader against Japan was of Scottish ancestry and there is some evidence he descended from Robert the Bruse.did u know more than 10 american presidents have been 100% or mainly of Scottish ancestry. U ecever seen the whole kicking ur feet thing hillbilly dancers do u really think they thought if that on their own they got that from scotland(well i guess all british people did it).
I get sick of it when people say anglo american when i think they should include Celtic- American. So much of American culture and identy is from the Scotch irish ur stereotype of the dumb hillbilly raciest american is from Scoth Irish.
Also u need to know where we Americans are coming for what our backround is. We are not native to this Continent we all come from the old world continents we are from those old world cultures and much of a culture we created. All Americans where originally white mainly protestant white from mainly England, ulster ireland, Germany. It was very hard for white Americans to allow non whit'es into their culture which resulted in angre and raceism. the Africans where slaves they defintley influenced american culture and without them we would not have it but they still where not accepted because they where so different. Americans saw Africans as inferior because Europe starting in the 1400;s was like one million times more advanced and powerful than any non Europeans.
We should all be shocked that white Americans eventulley after 100's of years learned to accept other races. Think about Muslims accepting 13% of their country being white westerns heck no would they allow that. It was also hard to accept non protestant Europeans like Irish, Italiens, Polish or just non English speakers but that conflict was not as bad as conflict with blacks. I am very proud that our country was able to do that we are not one ethnic group like almost all other countries we are a mix of old world ethnic groups and of course there are still some native Americans but they dont life there old culture out in everyday life. and white americans are almost never from soley one country i am a mix of Scottish, Irish, German, English, welsh, Cornish, Swiss, Prussian( far far eastern Germany), Norwegian and maybe more i dont know of since my ancestry has been here for so long.
we are very non raciest in my opinion because now we accept so many people and honestly i have not meet very few real raciest. the only i have meet have been black it is reverse racism but basically we accept everyone. America has literlly almost single handidly created the modern world our idea of freedom and equal rights and not to mention our countless inventions. Our clothing is now worldly accepted because we are so popular and powerful the English language is more wide spread than any language. We are one of the most important nations in the history of civilization. We literally created a new age in human history. We will not be forgotten later in human history.
I think the world defintley has some hate towards america because of our succes and influence. i am not saying all or that they are extremely hateful but it does exist. I think europe should have helped us more fight wars for iraqi freedom from a dictator(who cares if there where not weapons of mass destruction), help stop terriost from hurting our world and the Muslim world. also to help us end the extreme muslim world from killing more people like in syria and stop iran from getting a nuke. Americans dont understand we cant just hope mid eastern violence ends we need to stop it they wont stop their leaders are extremist or corrupt and of course the terrorist also the Muslim world was born by conquering war has been apart of it since the begging they wont stop. people blame us for trying to take oil have we taken any our wars in the mid east are just it is mainly liberal american hate based on the Vietnam war (which was fighting for south Vietnamese who where being unwilling conquered by communist supported by the USSR who wanted to destroy the free world).
I'm amazed at how much American culture gets shoved down British peoples throats, 80% of your tv shows end up here, your middle of the road news stories make it into our news papers. Ever stage of your elections is followed in great detail, (even the primaries or whatever they're called) much to my irritation. We got to watch the Republican party pick it's leader, yeah!
There is a divide in the UK between those who want to integrate into Europe, those who want to break away and move closer the the US (I have no idea how that would work or means in reality). There is definately a wierd anglo-american obsession in the media which i think is very much one sided, some British people are all misty eyed at the big english speaking free market capitalist machine over the atlantic and dismayed at the 'socialist' German/French alternative waiting for them in Brussels.
wow i had no idea u guys got so much american news and tv sorry about that. I would hate it if i got british stuff i have lived my whole life known america was the world's top dog and only being influced by my own country. I would hate it if there was a high forgien power influencing my country. well i think caplism works better just look at the succes america has had till the 1950's it is because of our economic system ever heard of the american dream. This is not a lie in america(i dont know about Europe and U.K.) u can be any one u want to be u just have to work for it it is incredible and that is because of our economic system.